Device for vertically adjusting drapery hangers



Aug. 9, 1927.

L. H. ROBINSON DEVICE FOR VERTICALLY ADJUSTING DRAPERY HANGERS Filed Nov.- 28 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 A TTORNE Y.

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Patented Aug. 9, 1927.

L'ULA H. ROBINSON, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

DEVICE FOR VERTICALLY ADJUSTING DRAPERY HANGERS.

Application filed November 28, 1925. Serial No. 71,903.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in ad ustable supports for draperies, curtains and other hangings forwindows, doors andthe like, and it refers more particularly to a novel arrangement in combination with supporting hangers of the character designated for the purpose of raising and lowering said hangers irrespective of their point of securement, and its objects are, primarily, to provide a hanger actuating means of substantial construction and of economical cost, having facilities for positively holding the said hanger at any point intermediate the top and bottom of the opening upon which it is applied, and further, a means to release the said holding means to permit the said hanger to be readily moved to any desired position on the opening in a free and'unrestricted manner.

With the foregoing in view, the invention has other objects and advantages, which will become more apparent as the description proceeds, as well as certain novelv features of construction and arrangement of parts, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

- Figure 1 represents an elevational view of a preferred form of hanger, showing the invention attached.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view in side elevation as the invention appears on a window.

Figure 3 is a rear view of the horizontal collapsible rod of the hanger.

Figure 4 represents the invention as the same appears attached to a window.

Figure 5 is a detail View of the track or slide, and adjusting member disposed thereon.

Figure 6 is a side elevational view of the track or slide with portions cut away showing the holding and releasing means.

Figure 7 is a front view thereof.

Figure 8 is a detail view of the end of the 45 hanger illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 9 represents a view of the adjusting slide and track in perspective, slightly modified.

Figure 10 is a side elevation thereof, as

the same appears on a window. I

Figure 11 is a detail view of another form of hook for supporting the curtain rods.

Figure 12 is another view of the invention disposed upon a window, and

Figure 13 shows another form ofcollaps- Q ible. curtain supporting rod.

In proceeding further in 1, the preferred form of which is illustrated in Figure 1, is employed in the present case.

however, the invention need not be restricted,

to this particular type. The enlarged ends 2 of the hanger are bifurcated as shown, the upper of the forks forming this bifurcation are convoluted as shown in Figure 8 to receive, the ends of one or more rods 3, said ends being formed to be received by said convolutions. The lower of the forks are provided withinwardly turned flanges at a to slidably receive shade brackets 4 as shown. The ends 2 are further slotted at b, the purpose of which will be later described.

Usually, wherean adjustable arrangement I as described in the foregoing is not employed in draping windows, doors and other openings, considerable effort is required to be put forth in mounting'the drapes initially, and in removing them for cleaning and other purposes. It has been found desirable to not only mount the drapes, as well as the shades upon a horizontally and vertically adjustable hanger, but also to provide a means for lowering the hanger, both for adjusting the drapes thereon, and to afford ventilation through the upper half of the window, while the lower half may be secured from outside view.

Therefore, the inventlon has been designed to meet the above requirements and which detail, a hanger consists primarily in providing preferably v a T shaped track or slide 5, which is arranged to be disposed uponeither side of an opening. The channeled or adjusting members 6 are provided with flanges 7 which are arranged to be bent about the T shaped track 5 in such a manner as to be freely slidable thereon and to their upper ends are affixed the hanger ends 2 by screws 8, whereby to be horizontally slidable in the slots b-b provided therefor, and previously mentioned.

A spring 14 is situated within the channel portion of the member 6 between the catch 12 and a protuberance 15, disposed up on the extreme end of the said member 6, whereby when the catch 12 is compressed by the fingers, the wire 11 is pulled downwardly causing the dog 9 to be released from the furrowed surface of the slide 5 whereby to permit free movement of the members 6 up and down the T shaped slide 5. Immedi ately upon release of the catch 12, the spring bi causes upward movement of the wire 11, permitting the dog 9 to again assume a position as shown in Figure 6, against the slide to hold the hanger at any position thereby placed.

The Figures 9 to 13, inclusive are drawn to a modified form of shade hanger or support, and while the adjusting means therefor is somewhat altered from the showing in the previous figures to suit the require ments of the hanger the changes resorted to are not such as to cause a departure from the general structural details adhered to in the former structure described herein.

The hanger in this regard consists Simply of the usual collapsible rod 1, the shade and curtain supporting brackets of which are disposed to be independently movable with respect to the rod 1 as shown, so as to obtain a more positive adjustment. A hook l6, such as shown in Figure 11 is employed to support the particular form of rod 17, in Figure 12.

It should be understood that regardless of the character and design of the hanger, the adjusting members 6 need not be altered to be applicable thereto, with respect to their relation to a window, door or other opening, and further, that certain modifications as to form may be resorted to if desired, without operate same, i a

departing from the spirit and intent of the invention as set forth in the annexed claims.

I claim:

1. In a curtain and drapery hanger, a track having a roughened face, a slide on the track, a dog pivoted at one end to the slide and having a free end engageable with the roughened face of the track, arod connected to the dog between the ends of the dog to slidable hand-engaging catch connected to the rod and carried by the slide, a rigid projection on the slide adjacent to the catch and a coil spring between the projection and catch for tensioning the latter.

2. In a hanger of the type set forth, a

track, a hollow slide on the track having a part of its lower end turned outwardly at an angle to form a hand-grip and having a slotted part adjacent to and above the handgrip, a slidable catch in the slide having a part projecting through the slot to provide a hand-engaging member located adjacent to the hand grip, a coil spring in the slide between the catch and hand-grip, a dog in the slide pivoted at one end thereto and having its opposite end free and engageable with the track, and a rod in the slide connected to the catch at one end and to the dog at its opposite end at a point intermediate the ends of the dog.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

LULA H. ROBINSON. 

